{"id":37519,"date":"2026-08-05T19:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=37519"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:37:55","slug":"dum-de-d-u-m-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=37519","title":{"rendered":"Dum De D-U-M Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight Donald Trump reversed himself on dumb<\/a><\/strong> (video link). He came up with dumocrat all on his own, and since he can never be seen to be wrong, dumb shall no longer have a b. Hey, if Noah Webster, a commoner, could Americanize flavour and colour by dumping the u, King Donnie can damn well un-b dum. Look for dum to become another MAGA litmus test, like Gulf of America and the Trump landslide of 2020.<\/p>\n

My self-maintenance schedule: haircuts every fifth Tuesday at ten, pedicures every eighth Friday at nine-thirty. As an official oldster with typical oldster issues, I see my doctor, my cardiologist, and my dermatologist every six months, and then there’s the annual eye check I wrote about in my previous post. All my appointments are within a six-mile radius of home, as is the Starbucks I stop at afterward for a take-home frappuccino reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s my haircut before and after. You may find it hard to tell much difference between these selfies, but there’s always a pile of gray trimmings under the chair when Jason’s done with me. Sorry for the intrusive wristwatch in the before photo \u2014 I thought I might post it to WatchCrunch later but decided they’d seen more than enough of me and my watches. Side note: I have a hard time telling my dark blue shirt from the black one, but the photo tells me I got it right for once, because I meant to wear blue that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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And here are a couple of shots of vaguely-treatening monsoon skies over Tucson Monday evening. Donna and I were watching Rachel on MS-Now when our iPhones went off with loud weather watch alerts: a haboob was on its way, threatening zero visibility in blowing dust. The warning was premature \u2014 Phoenix did get blanketed in a dust storm, but not until Tuesday night; we didn’t get anything down in Tucson.<\/p>\n

Do I enjoy saying haboob? You bet, because it annoys the dum-dums.<\/p>\n

Stay fresh, cheese bags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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